11:08:03 <b1airo> #startmeeting scientific-sig
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11:08:20 <b1airo> Better do that before you go on any further :-)
11:09:23 <janders> we'll get them to work... eventually :)
11:09:28 <b1airo> What did you figure out with the CX-6 breakouts?
11:09:40 <janders> no, not yet, we focused on the VPI aspect
11:10:09 <janders> but the word from the reseller is "they might take a bit longer to get work, but when the become fully supported, they will remain so for their lifetime"
11:10:19 <janders> backed with experience with few older generations
11:10:45 <janders> hopefully that's true cause the breakouts would allow some really efficient, blocking, storage-optimised topologies
11:10:50 <b1airo> Ok, so firmware and more likely needed? Are they Dell models?
11:11:00 <janders> think 72 blades a rack on a single HDR switch
11:11:11 <janders> the cards are vanilla mlnx
11:11:13 <janders> servers are Intel
11:12:39 <b1airo> Right, sounds not dissimilar to the PCI issues we had with vanilla CX-4s in Dell C6420s
11:13:37 <b1airo> I'm guessing we don't have oneswig or martial this evening... I may have missed that from them in Slack earlier today
11:13:53 <janders> ah.. slack.. I need to re-join it
11:14:30 <janders> my chrome crapped out the other day (essentially it would render a black box on startup). I had to delete most of the history/cache/config to recover and that kicked me out of my slack spaces
11:14:52 <janders> do you have any experience with ironic and UEFI hardware?
11:15:31 <janders> it's the first time I'm using UEFI servers (due to Intel's strong preference for it) and seeing some real weirdness
11:15:59 <b1airo> Yes, insofar as we avoided it with our initial Ironic testing at Monash. Not sure if the guys got past that yet
11:18:44 <janders> sorry I got kicked out
11:19:20 <b1airo> No probs, another Chrome crash?
11:19:32 <janders> what I'm seeing is: the first provisioning attempt *just works* any subsequent ones are hit and miss. It looks like Ironic intermittently fails to PXEboot UEFI nodes
11:19:39 <janders> does this seem familiar?
11:19:56 <janders> this time it looks like freenode glitch and no success with auto-reconnect
11:19:59 <janders> had to leave and rejoin
11:20:43 <janders> we only need UEFI to have support for VROC which doesn't work particularly well with Ironic anyway, so I might have a go at switching these servers to legacy boot
11:21:04 <janders> but curious if it's just our setup or something more common
11:25:25 <b1airo> Hmm not sure I'm afraid. Sounds like something oneswig and co would have experience with though
11:25:41 <janders> might be worth bringing this up again next week
11:25:55 <janders> sounds like not much audience this time.. shall we call it a short meeting?
11:26:16 <b1airo> Yeah good plan. I'm going to need to run now anyway - gotta drive home
11:26:41 <b1airo> Have a good night!
11:26:48 <janders> you to Blair! :)
11:26:53 <janders> (and I got my Slack sorted :)
11:26:55 <b1airo> #endmeeting